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Hi,
Do anyone know any tool to flash dimond from Mac OSX?
I have to boot wz windows each time I have to do it.
Thks n brgds
Hi,
Being on a Mac too, I never found any flashing tool that was reliable, so your best bet is to use Parallels Desktop or VMWare to launch Win under MacOS...
manubx said:
Hi,
Being on a Mac too, I never found any flashing tool that was reliable, so your best bet is to use Parallels Desktop or VMWare to launch Win under MacOS...
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have you tried flashing via these apps? how was it? I haven't tried it via emulation software since usb isn't as stable as having a windows machine, bootcamp should work.
manubx said:
Hi,
Being on a Mac too, I never found any flashing tool that was reliable, so your best bet is to use Parallels Desktop or VMWare to launch Win under MacOS...
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You cannot do it. I already tried.
approved101 said:
You cannot do it. I already tried.
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if you are using bootcamp then it can be done and if you are using parrallel or any other virtualization then it can be done but you must first put your phone in BOOTLOADER mode and then connect to mac via USB and then flash your phone.
Mahmood said:
if you are using bootcamp then it can be done and if you are using parrallel or any other virtualization then it can be done but you must first put your phone in BOOTLOADER mode and then connect to mac via USB and then flash your phone.
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Great ... how can I put my phone in BOOTLOADER mode????
approved101 said:
You cannot do it. I already tried.
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Hum, then how comes I just Flashed my cruise with wm6.1 through parallels? Would my beloved mac actually be a PC? omg.....
Nah, it CAN be done, I do it almost daily But, it's true that some CustomRUU.exe's sometimes act weird...
@approved101: depends on your ppc...
You can also flash through SD card. That way, it doesn't matter what OS you use.
Bootcamp will work fine obviously as it just makes your Mac a Windows machine. I found that the latest Parallels didn' work properly, flashing wouldn't go all the way to 100%. The latest VMware worked surprisingly well though.
There is an open source flash tool called HTCflasher that can be compiled for OS X. It doesn't seem to work though as it doesn't use Linux style paths to usb devices. There is a possibility we might get it to work someday though.
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Hum, then how comes I just Flashed my cruise with wm6.1 through parallels? Would my beloved mac actually be a PC? omg.....
Nah, it CAN be done, I do it almost daily But, it's true that some CustomRUU.exe's sometimes act weird...
@approved101: depends on your ppc...
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I have a Diamond, then I connect it wz WMWare and flashing starts, when activesync disconnects, flashing program cannot detect Diamond.
Wz bootcamp no problem, but I prefer to use windows only for playing Assasins .. hahahhahahaa.
Hello folks.
I'm working on custom kernel & ramdisk on Linux and was tired to plug/deplug the phone from my Linux workstation to a Windows netbook to flash it...
..Before I realized that Odin works perfectly well on a XP VM on a Ubuntu 10.4 host / Linux 2.6.35.2 !
Big bonus of this setup is that the software virtual USB switch allow you to plug/deplug the phone without touching any hardware.
Odin re-discover the phone and you can flash next millisecond
PS : this has maybe already has been reported, but I know few people who thought it did not work.
I never had any issues flashing my old Hermes through a VM XP machine on my hackingtosh back in the day, as long as I selected the correct USB port to stop OSX trying to grab hold of it.
Not quite "off topic" but thought it would put a few minds at rest
FlanFlinger said:
I never had any issues flashing my old Hermes through a VM XP machine on my hackingtosh back in the day, as long as I selected the correct USB port to stop OSX trying to grab hold of it.
Not quite "off topic" but thought it would put a few minds at rest
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VMWare 3 on a Mac, no go for Odin. Can't get the USB to hold onto the phone, only device I ever had trouble with.
Gonna try VB...
distortedloop said:
VMWare 3 on a Mac, no go for Odin. Can't get the USB to hold onto the phone, only device I ever had trouble with.
Gonna try VB...
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I thought that Vmware was better than VirtualBox for USB tweaks, maybe this is history !
Tell us aware of your tests on Mac
In download mode, SGS appears as Gadget Serial [021B] in VirutalBox.
Pretty good news, I should really clean the dust off my XP virtual machine!
Is Samsung Kies working too?
VMWare 7 in Ubuntu is fine too...
thunderteaser said:
Pretty good news, I should really clean the dust off my XP virtual machine!
Is Samsung Kies working too?
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Kies in VirtualBox fine...VMWare fail MTP driver...
I finally just installed Windows 7 in Boot Camp. VM would never see the phone
braintheboss said:
Kies in VirtualBox fine...VMWare fail MTP driver...
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Thanks for your feedback! I replaced VMWare with VirtualBox many years ago and this kind of issues was the main reason, you should stick to VirtualBox!
Can someone tell me how to prevent my mac to grab my phone on usb? I always get an error from my virtualbox, thay device is used by someone else.
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Can't get the Galaxy S i9000 to connect to VirtualBox either.
I select Gadget Serial, it waits a minute or so, then pops up this error message:
Failed to attach the USB device Unknown device to the virtual machine XP.
Could not find a USB device with uuid (xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx).
Callee RC: NS_ERROR_INVALID_ARG (0x80070057)
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After that, sometimes the phone still appears as available to connect, others it doesn't. Very similar to the VMWare problem.
This is on my Late 2009 MacBook Pro with Snow Leopard. Doesn't matter which USB port I select. I might try a powered hub in between the phone and the laptop. Connecting the SGS to the laptop USB is always a bit of hit and miss for both adb sessions and even mounting the sdcards. I frequently have to unlplug and replug the phone to get a connection. I've seen a few others report the same.
Must be an issue with OS X itself, but to make sure I'll have to try this on my Mac Pro desktop.
I'll report back any success, but I'm not hopeful, I've yet to read a report of someone successfully using Odin in a vm on a Mac.
I'll pile on with my test results. Thus far, under Mac OS X 10.6.4, I have not successfully connected the Vibrant to a VM USB in any Windows virtual machine with the Samsung USB drivers installed. I tried vmware fusion 3.1.1 and the latest virtualbox, 3.2.8. Both failed to recognize the phone when attempting to mount it. No issues in the Mac host environment or Bootcamp. The problem is limited to the VM environments under the Mac host environment.
If anyone has successfully connected the Vibrant to a Windows virtual machine running under vmware fusion or virtual box for Mac please report your results. I did quite a bit of searching and found no successful results with this combo. Thanks.
UK
Appears to be a lost cause for Mac owners who won't boot camp.
ukchucktown said:
I'll pile on with my test results. Thus far, under Mac OS X 10.6.4, I have not successfully connected the Vibrant to a VM USB in any Windows virtual machine with the Samsung USB drivers installed. I tried vmware fusion 3.1.1 and the latest virtualbox, 3.2.8. Both failed to recognize the phone when attempting to mount it. No issues in the Mac host environment or Bootcamp. The problem is limited to the VM environments under the Mac host environment.
If anyone has successfully connected the Vibrant to a Windows virtual machine running under vmware fusion or virtual box for Mac please report your results. I did quite a bit of searching and found no successful results with this combo. Thanks.
UK
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Thanks to fresh discovering, you will be able to flash from the phone itself soon
supercurio said:
Thanks to fresh discovering, you will be able to flash from the phone itself soon
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This is exciting.
this thread is definitely NOT what I had hoped to find after trying to use odin under VMWare/Win7 (MBP 2009)
I'll report back if I figure out anything. I've had similar battles with activesync/WMC under VMWare as well, and I've got things playing nice after some tinkering
Was a little worried about using virtual machines to flash my favorite toy, but this thread was the push I needed to give it a shot. Plus, seems like there's a fix to get out of almost any brick you manage to install on your phone, even if you have to build a JIG its not expensive.
So gave it a shot and it worked like a charm, Mint/Ubuntu 10.10 host using Virtualbox. One less reason to ever use Windows 7. Even when I don't boot it Windows breaks, I swear its a scheme to keep people who fix Microsoft products employed......
Supercurio that mean "Odin in Recovery" ? or im think in a false way? to flash tar files in recovery..
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Wow, you might become an archaelogist if you managed to bring back this thread from the ashes! We now have Heimdall, which is GNU/Linux native. Give that a shot.
I ever used Odin in a VM of Windows 7 over Ubuntu 11.04.
Heimdall is only for 64bit system and i user a 32bit version.. so...
But..Every flashed i did went good
Long time abuser of Android devices and very happy with the SGS2. However, as Mac user, the tools required to mod the SGS2 are not Mac friendly. So I'm turning to the excellent minds of the XDA community to help me enjoy my device.
I run virtualization software which in the past was more than sufficient for any device I wanted to root, hack, etc. So using VMware installed Kies and downloaded the drivers fine (I've even manually installed the drivers to make sure I got them all). The problem primarily is with Odin. In download mode, the device is not recognized. So I figured it was VMware so I tried Parallels and Virtualbox with the same results. Even tried Heimdall which is supposedly more VM friendly but no luck.
Am I just overlooking something or do I really need to use a PC? Your thoughts would be greatly appreciated. TIA
Bootcamp. Doesn't work vm.
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cdd543 said:
Bootcamp. Doesn't work vm.
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Are you using it with bootcamp?
jlevy73 said:
Are you using it with bootcamp?
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I used Odin through bootcamp with no problems at all.
But heimdall should run natively on mac and Linux, you just need mono.
? I thought EVERYTHING sucked for a MAC user....
jlevy73 said:
Long time abuser of Android devices and very happy with the SGS2. However, as Mac user, the tools required to mod the SGS2 are not Mac friendly. So I'm turning to the excellent minds of the XDA community to help me enjoy my device.
I run virtualization software which in the past was more than sufficient for any device I wanted to root, hack, etc. So using VMware installed Kies and downloaded the drivers fine (I've even manually installed the drivers to make sure I got them all). The problem primarily is with Odin. In download mode, the device is not recognized. So I figured it was VMware so I tried Parallels and Virtualbox with the same results. Even tried Heimdall which is supposedly more VM friendly but no luck.
Am I just overlooking something or do I really need to use a PC? Your thoughts would be greatly appreciated. TIA
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I have not got a mac, but have done the following:
ODIN on native PC
ODIN in VMware virtual machine (host = windows xp, guest = windows xp)
Heimdall in Windows (native)
Heimdall in VMWare virtual machine (host = windows xp, guest = ubuntu 11.04)
I don't know what the drivers are like on VMWare for OSX... But I had no issues in any of the above, beyond occasional glitches with ODIN that are likely due to poor coding, or just limited error checking, given it's internal software not really intended for our use.
Bootcamp is the way to go. I also tried with vmware but I think there is some strange stuff with network sharing which messes up the usb connection, both to osx and the vm.
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Thanks everyone for your quick replies. Bootcamp did the trick.
Hello, I'm a Mac user who has no access to a Windows computer whatsoever and is stuck on the DK28 modem. Whenever I try to flash anything or use any command in Heimdall, it says "Failed to detect compatible device." I've used all the usb cables I have, all of them work when the phone is on but not in download mode. I have no idea what's wrong. Please help!
I have successfully used it on an linux machine. I had to get the libusb-1.0 library though.
I have no idea about Mac though.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=878686
Try that link maybe?
Heimdall for Mac doesn't work with the Epic. Samsung has to update something in the SBL to make it work. Heimdall does, however, work perfectly on Linux and Windows. Any chance you could use a friends computer or perhaps one at the library?
readingkeeper said:
Heimdall for Mac doesn't work with the Epic. Samsung has to update something in the SBL to make it work. Heimdall does, however, work perfectly on Linux and Windows. Any chance you could use a friends computer or perhaps one at the library?
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Would it work in Ubuntu on VMware Fusion?
Download a linux livedisc
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HeroMeng said:
Would it work in Ubuntu on VMware Fusion?
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I think so.
HeroMeng said:
Would it work in Ubuntu on VMware Fusion?
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Unfortunately no. The phone (in download mode) is totally undetectable by OS X's kernel. Even virtual machines running on OS X can't see the phone. You'll have to use a livecd or bootcamp.
You could also do what I do and setup your Mac to dual boot. I keep Windows 7 on mine for just these occasions such as Epic modding
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I want to manually update my firmware on my unlocked snapdragon galaxy s20 ultra but only have access to a mac.Is it possible and if so can somebody guide me through the process.I usually odin update on my windows pc.so unfortunately Mac is uncharted territory for me.
Run windows in bootcamp or a VM and do it via Odin. IIRC there's no mac tool for flashing galaxy devices.
kvell36 said:
Run windows in bootcamp or a VM and do it via Odin. IIRC there's no mac tool for flashing galaxy devices.
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What is Heimdall front-end or Jodin I got it to install on the Mac I just can't get the files to be recognized and what is Bootcamp I don't have access to a Windows based laptop.
JAMRZ69 said:
What is Heimdall front-end or Jodin I got it to install on the Mac I just can't get the files to be recognized and what is Bootcamp I don't have access to a Windows based laptop.
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No idea what Heimdall or Jodin are, but Bootcamp allows you to run full Windows on your Mac. Just download an ISO for it from the Microsoft website and go through the wizard in macOS, creating a partition for your Windows install. You can find more info elsewhere, but this is generally how I run Windows-only software on my Mac, as it literally turns it into a Windows PC.
kvell36 said:
No idea what Heimdall or Jodin are, but Bootcamp allows you to run full Windows on your Mac. Just download an ISO for it from the Microsoft website and go through the wizard in macOS, creating a partition for your Windows install. You can find more info elsewhere, but this is generally how I run Windows-only software on my Mac, as it literally turns it into a Windows PC.
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Sweet Thank you very much.
If you want a regular update, Smart switch works just fine. Did the last update like that and went smoothly